Great Tips for Success and Happiness

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Great Tips for Success and Happiness

1. What are the ten most important things one must do to achieve success and happiness?

2. What important lessons you have learned from your long experience?

The answers to these questions would vary from person to person depending upon such factors as age, sex, education, environments, and marital status as well as the field of expertise or skills. By sharing our experiences or views we can learn many things and avoid wasted efforts.

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Here are few great tips culled from various sources after research and study.

1. Goal setting always works. Your goals and objectives must be challenging requiring extra ordinary effort on your part. They may appear to be out of reach but should not out of sight.

2. Your goals must be supported and followed by plans of action. You must plan your actions and act on your plans.

3. Write down your goals for business, hobbies, family, social activities and your entire life. Break them into target for the day, week, month and the year and evaluate your progress every day. Keep on modifying your goals and target and adding new ones or deleting old ones.

4. Resolve and affirm and keep on reaffirming that after 6 to 8 hours sound sleep, you will utilize every moment available to you productively.

5. Keep on practicing positive thinking and approaches and framing such subtle and gentle questions the response for which would be, "yes"". Ponder over it and keep practicing how you can get other person to answer yes.

6. Be a good listener. Let the other person do most of the talking.

7. Throw challenges indirectly and appeal to noble motives.

8. Punctuality helps you in winning but you lose a lot being late.

9. Avoiding snap decisions will save you from losses and embarrassment. But indecision or not making a decision in time would cause more damage.

10. You must get all the relevant facts to arrive at a decision but remember that in most cases an imperfect decision may be better than 'No decision'.

11. "Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious". _B. C. FORBES.

12. Executive ability has been defined to be "making quick decisions and getting somebody else to do the jobs." And art of delegation is said to be art of management.

13. Never tell a person that his opinion is wrong. Show respect for the opinions and convictions of others.

14. Don't entangle yourself in an argument. You may sometime win an argument but lose a friend or customer. By avoiding argument you have little to lose.

15. If your mistake or error of judgement comes to light admit it quickly and graciously.

16. Greet people with a broad smile and warm handshake. But be careful, many ladies do not like to shake hands with men. However, practically every woman feels pleased with a compliment.

17 Be generous with praise and avoid criticism. But point out mistakes or errors subtly and gently (in privacy as far as possible) if that is going to create embarrassing situation later.

18 Find some reason to praise something. It may be a dress or some new possession.

19. Be sincere and honest, as that will be reflected by your facial expressions while you talk.

20. Watch carefully body language or gesticulation of successful people, leaders, etc. Do not imitate them but try to develop your own style. Body language helps others in understanding what you try to convey.

21 In written communication a neat style, simple and straightforward approach and simple language free from grammatical mistakes will pave the way for convincing others.

22. Be sympathetic with other person's ideas and desires. That will help in developing feelings of mutual trust and understanding.

23. Keep on learning new things and watch the developments in your field of expertise or business. Even great scholars and scientists do that.

24. One of the best ways to get happiness is to make the people around you happy.

25. Count the blessings of God that you have and think of misfortunes and miseries of the people around you and thank the Almighty that you are better than many.

26. Always remember that feelings of disappointment, remorse and discontentment are temporary and time is a great healer but you must pray and meditate. That will help in working out a plan to get happiness.

27. Learn to control anger and anxiety. Take a shower or wash your face with a wet towel when these emotions overtake you.

28. Take part in social and cultural activities and make acquaintances with strangers preferably asking your friends to introduce you to the people you want to meet. Don't be shy in approaching the strangers if you have to. After all you are as important a guest or visitor as the others. Exchange visiting cards after exchanging pleasantries but before parting or shaking hands to say bye.

29. Ring up the new acquaintance after a day or two just to renew contact and invite for tea or something, or just send a small note.

30. Make conscious effort to get rid of bad habits like smoking, drinking, gambling etc. Pray to God to give you power of faith. With that power you can move mountains.

31. Do what you love, love what you do and deliver more
than you promise.' --Harvey Mackay

32. Always bear in mind that the world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.